#entheogens

[mush-womb]

[astral-witch]

witch

[entheognosis]

[lailoken]

I discovered a holy grove!

[zmiyina]

I’m begging you to expand on your views on cannabis and its connection to Mokosh

Yes! Yes! You don't have to beg me here. I just want everyone to know, what is about to happen in this post is exactly the reason I can't make short videos.

I guess I want to start by... calibrating who we are talking about when we say "Mokosh". I will try to present the pieces of information we do have - you can make your own conclusions as to which sound true, however I find it is useful to frankly double check all available information now and again. To be completely frank, Slavic goddesses underwent a certain tradwification in the popular understanding that says more about the mythmakers than about the goddesses.

By that I mean that our current understanding of their potential character or sphere of influence seems to have shifted towards the image of a hearth-keeper and a Traditional (in the sense of the modern ideology) wife.

Anyway.

So, what do we have de facto: she was apparently the only goddess mentioned in the Pantheon of Volodymyr, which possibly might have been a calque from another foreign list of gods in place of Astarte. One quote mentions her before stating that pagan worshipers engaged in masturbation. This mention may have been a separate statement, or may have been added in relation to her cult. In one source the author is potentially making a parallel between Mokosh and Hekate by mentioning them next to each other in his condemnation of local pagan holdovers. I will mention, the sentence is ambiguous, and might also point to an unknown local goddess that was for come reason equated with Hekate. Her name, Mokosh, is generally understood to be derived from the word "wet", and water is an element that likewise tends to connect the earth, our life on this side, and Underworld forces.

It is very possible that the spinner and women's labour imagery has entered her identity with the introduction of St. Paraskeva. In any case, both earth fertility and harvest, water, and even the products of spinning and weaving are all connected to the cult of the dead in Slavic cultures. All this together paints a picture of her as something much more primal and chthonic than what we usually describe her as. In that sense, she is, as far as her spheres of potential influence are concerned, seems very much alike Veles.

And as I have talked about before, to me the presence of Mokosh is in some ways a continuance of Api, the Scythian "Gaia", who herself is often linked to the ancestral Snake-Legged Goddess.

All that out of the way (phew!), let's just explore where there threads might lead us.

Fist and foremost, as the screenshot mentions, the consensus etymology of the word "cannabis" links it linguistically and culturally to the Scythians. Of course the nature and presence of their gods and their spirituality did not vanish once we started calling our experiences on the same land with other names.

The potential link to funeral rites is also particularly fascinating in the light of the underworld connection I discussed before.

Now, I find the link to self-pleasure and its core association with fertility of living things personally very true, but I would question the centrality of agriculture as such in our interpretations. In this aspect, cannabis can stand as a teacher of joy and satisfaction. For the earth to produce crops and for our cattle to bring in their young, this principle by necessity must exist in the parts of nature that are nor bringing us profit, otherwise our relationship becomes exploitative. In that sense Mokosh holds the realignment towards work with the natural forces and the understanding that every living thing in nature that is not burdened by existential overthinking truly strives to act from a place of satisfaction and pleasure.

And I want to circle back to Mokosh's role as a spinner. Now, as I mentioned, it is possible the reference may have arrived from the Christinized layer of spirituality, however, it does not mean we must dismiss it as untrue, or that Mokosh herself does not seem to show an affinity to the textile arts and their symbolism. Textiles are also a traditional offering to Rusalkas. Now, the primary imagery here is that of sheep and wool, however, there is really no source or reason that would suggest that is somehow the only fiber source legitimately connected to Mokosh. I would argue that in a lot of folklore, Ukrainian folk songs in particular for example, hemp is both mentioned frequently in love divination and nature renewal narratives, and is often connected with feminine imagery. Honestly, it is quite possible we are missing out simply because hemp plants is apparently not something you bring up in polite society.

So I hope you made it to the end, stranger, and that this satisfies your curiosity.

[entheogen-explorer]

Introduction

What's up everyone?

I'm a beginner psychonaut, taking my first steps in this psychedelic journey. And in this blog I will write about my experiences with these substances.

As of writing this, the only entheogens I've tried are mushrooms and weed; though I took the mushrooms at a really low dose, barely felt anything. With cannabis though, I've had plenty spiritual experiences.

I've accessed hyperdimensional space, felt a ritual of my ancestors from 2000 years ago, and bore witness to the might of the sun god Ra!

A few days ago, I ordered 6 grams of Psilocybe cubensis (legally sourced), and plan on taking them when they arrive, and I'll later report on the trip(s) here. I intend to start with a 2 gram dose, before moving on to 4 grams of cube in the next session.

Well, that's all she wrote for today. Really excited for the upcoming tripping and subsequent posting. See you next time folks!

[merelygifted]

A majority of Americans support legalizing marijuana use. Support is highest among middle-aged Americans

Support is highest among Democrats (75% vs. 15% oppose), but Independents (54% vs. 26%) and Republicans (50% vs. 43%) are also more likely t

[spensorium]

🚴‍♂️ Bicycle Day: April 19, 1943 — the day Albert Hofmann first intentionally ingested LSD and rode his bicycle through Basel, Switzerland, unknowingly crossing a threshold far beyond ordinary waking consciousness.

I always find it funny that the day before 4/20 - a date now widely associated with marijuana use - is the true celebratory day of tripsters, yet it remains mostly overlooked. I used to joke that Earth Day exists just to remind us what planet we’re on after celebrating these two days 😂

LSD was synthesized from ergot, a parasitic fungus that grows on rye and grains. This blackened mold has haunted human history for centuries. In the Middle Ages, it caused outbreaks of “St. Anthony’s Fire”..a horrific burning sensation, mass hallucinations, and spiritual seizures. Entire villages would convulse in visions, dance wildly, speak in tongues, and sometimes die in agony. To the Church, it was demonic possession. To witches and midwives, it was sacred pharmakon.

Ergot was a witch’s ally.. used in feminine, lunar rites tied to childbirth, divination, and flight. It was one of the alleged ingredients in the infamous “flying ointments”, psychoactive salves for astral travel and communion with spirits. Hidden in rural ritual and folk magic, its entheogenic potential was known long before modern science extracted LSD from its fungal soul.

Fast forward to the 20th century: Hofmann, working at Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, “discovers” LSD. While initially explored for therapeutic potential, its real journey led quickly into black ops. The CIA and other intelligence agencies saw LSD not as a medicine—but as a weapon. Under MK-Ultra, LSD was deployed on unwitting subjects, prisoners, soldiers, artists, civilians. These weren’t accidents; they were rituals of psychic destabilization.

What appears in hindsight as a botched mind control experiment that accidentally sparked a cultural revolution may, in truth, have been something far more deliberate.

The 1960s psychedelic explosion wasn't just a spontaneous rebellion.. it was a guided detonation of consensus reality.

Think about it: a compound with roots in European witchcraft is alchemically purified by pharmaceutical labs, weaponized by covert agencies, and then dumped into the cultural bloodstream through carefully chosen vectors: Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, The Grateful Dead, Alan Watts, and others- many of whom had direct or indirect ties to intelligence operations or elite academic institutions.

The Acid Tests, the explosion of psychedelic music, the Hippie Movement, and even the New Age spiritual revival were not merely cultural phenomena.. they were, in all likelihood, components of an occult social engineering project.

The goal? To erode the old world, dissolve traditional religious structures, fragment the ego, and introduce an interface with the Other - the subtle, astral, and sometimes demonic realms.

Yes, many had positive and life-changing metaphysical breakthroughs; real experiences of divinity that shattered the stale orthodoxies of modernity. But simultaneously, spiritual trends were deliberately pushed.. via cults, intelligence agencies, UFO religions, Scientology, and others as a means to open the psyche to more advanced and modern forms of mind control.

Through acid, the veil thinned.

And from the shadows, those who understood the rules of magic - the dark magicians behind the intelligence apparatus.. watched it unfold.

So I often contemplate…

Was the psychedelic revolution not a counter to control, but controlled opposition?

A ritualized mass initiation. A Trojan horse that seduced generations with promises of freedom and expanded consciousness… all while dissolving psychic structures that guard against possession, confusion, and collective vulnerability.

LSD became the sacrament of a new order -not one ruled by priests or kings, but by shadow networks, egregores, and techno-sorcerers.

So today, on Bicycle Day, remember:

LSD was born from fungal witchcraft, perfected by pharmaceutical alchemy, and unleashed through covert psychological operations.

It opened portals.. but not all doors lead to light.

The revolution was real.

But revolutions, when engineered by those in power, are rarely free - they transmute.

And in the midst of the swirling colors and dissolving egos…

the black magicians smiled.

And then this generation.. the acid-blooded inheritors - sought to consume even more. But what came next wasn’t LSD…

It was research chemicals.. the 25-class, NBOMes, DOxs - the TRUEST means of mind-rotting.

But that…

is a discussion for another day.